Alyona Subbotina (born February 13, 1990) is a Kazakhstani fashion model and entrepreneur. She gained international recognition after exclusively opening the Givenchy fashion week in Paris in 2011. She has worked with designers such as Giorgio Armani, Givenchy and Helmut Lang. She is currently signed to RED Model Management in New York City.Subbotina was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She was a member of the Kazakh Olympic Volleyball team. She began her modeling career at the age of 16 in Singapore while concurrently completing a B.A. in Hotel Management from the East Asia Institute of Management. Wikipedia